Are We Really Apostolic?

Lately I have been pondering on these things. I want to truly be Apostolic. I am not
finger pointing because I feel we all have room to improve.

I am truly sick of the enemy getting the upper hand in the lives of the people of
the Name of Jesus. It is time that deliverance is preached in churches.If we are saying we
are Apostolic then the same things that occurred in the Bible ought to be happening in
our midst.

When is the last time you have seen someone having to run for the waste paper basket
in church because someone was getting deliverance?

Do we think that deliverance died with the old timers?
Brother Klein and I preached in one assembly and the remark was made,"Oh that is just like the old timers." One minister who trained in a church I helped at came to me and said," Sister Dana
you should have seen what happened when I visited the church in ______. There was a lady who came up and they started praying for her and stuff started coming up. I was the only one who even had a clue what was happening thanks to the ministry teaching me what to do."
He then ran for the waste basket and proceeded to help her get deliverance.

I think too many are directing people to self help programs rather than Holy Ghost
deliverance.

When the ministry tells someone that they need anti-depressants then you know
the message is perverted.

I cannot see any place where Jesus sent them to the psychiatrist. I also don't see where Paul or Peter or John did either.

Sure I believe that people can have so destroyed their bodies that after they receive the Holy Ghost and get deliverance that they may still need things to make the chemicals work correctly but the same Jesus can correct that as well. These people need then to be seeking healing. Can they find it in the altars of the Apostolic churches? If this is happening in your church
then please put out the word so the rest can come to a church that is claiming what its naming on the sign.

What is your crutch today? What is your excuse? Are you relying on deliverance from the Holy Ghost and replacing your thoughts with Bible thoughts or do you run to the clinic for methadone? Lets be honest. Either we are going to serve the true Jesus or we are going to
serve the weak and perverted version that religion is passing out.

Do you believe the Bible?

Lately I have gotten emails from Ladies who are honestly seeking deliverance and healing.
It so burdens me that they are not receiving all they could be receiving.

I pray that Jesus would deliver each one. Its a shame that in our day and age that more Apostolics are not practicing what the Bible preaches. We have become too complacent and
comfortable and wealthy. The world is going to hell and we are more worried about which
dress to wear to service. We want another building program because we feel that if we build it they will come. Well thats a facade. What will they come to? Will they come to another cistern or will they come to living water and never thirst again? Jesus help us all. We have got to have True Apostolic Ministry in operation among us. When you have to drive four hours to be in a service where the gifts operate or two hours to find a church that still believes in old fashioned Holy Ghost deliverance its a shame. I am tired of reading books by Verbal Bean and those who moved in Apostolic Holy Ghost power and then going to places that no more resemble this than the man in the moon. Most don't even have pre-service prayer any more. What is happening in the churches today? Its scary to me.

I pray that those who have the truth in salvation would move deeper into the realm of faith so that the Church of Jesus Christ can really claim title to the term Apostolic. Look at what the word says Jesus did. Are we really Apostolic?

Matthew 4:24

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

Matthew 7:22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

Matthew 8:16
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with [his] word, and healed all that were sick:

Matthew 10:18
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Mark 1:32
And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

Mark 1:34
And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

Mark 1:39
And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.

Mark 3:15
And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

Mark 6:13
And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them].

Mark 9:38
And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

Mark 16:9
Now when [Jesus] was risen early the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Mark 16:17
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;


Help us Jesus.
In Jesus,
Dana Klein

Who is a Member of a Local Church?

Hello Students,

Who is a member of a local church?

Are you a member because you warm a pew and give the required money?

What does the Holy Bible say?

"For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?" 1 Corinthians 12:14-17

A foot, an ear, an eye, and a nose all have a function.

If you attend a local church and don't have a function, are you really a member?

Sure the pastor expects you to attend and warm a pew and give money, but does he or she guide you into ministry?

Many Christians today are simply expected to do nothing else but to attend and give money! Every Christian has a ministry. Most don't have a ministry in the local church, and the pastor could care less! He is a one man show!

Many pastors only look at their congregation as their pay check or even their retire fund.

So, you need to belong to a local church where you have a function!

In Jesus,
Bruce

We Need to Hear Jesus !

Most standards I have heard preached are minimal. If we have a relationship with
Jesus we can hear his voice.

If we only rely on the preacher than we are in sad shape indeed.

Let me share just a few examples.

These are things we do without the preacher telling us.
We don't watch tv in our home because its mostly garbage. Even the news is tainted.

The newspaper is filled with depressing stuff. Read it and try to pick out positive things. You will have a problem with finding any. I read it and pray against junk that
is happening in our world.

I can choose where I surf on the net. Tv throws it in your
face and once you have seen the junk its hard to erase the image of it. Maybe you
are different than me and its not so hard for you.

I feel that gender is an issue so I stay away from styles that are manly.
I feel the society paints a picture of a woman that Jesus does not. I stay
away from what it expects me to be and try to personify what Jesus' word says.
The world's standard of modesty is way below the Bible standard of modesty.
I don't need someone to pound it into my mind. I can see that the Bible teaches
it and have enough Holy Ghost to know what to wear and what not to wear.

The problem I have with people who pound standards and try to define every little
line is that they go over board. Women are not born evil and out trying to
get every man to fall into sin. We are beautiful and intelligent and know our
Bibles. We are not Amish and do not need to look like an 1800 photograph.
We can read the word and know how to dress and behave. We are able to do
work in the Kingdom and fulfill the call of Jesus Christ and still be Biblical in
the way we dress and behave. We do not need to look like Grandmas at 20 years old
nor do we need to look like the cover of Cosmo. We have been given the same
Holy Ghost as the men in the church and we are not weak spirited. We pray and
fast and read the Word and are used by Jesus in our world. Great works
have been done by women who are submitted to Jesus.
In Jesus,
Dana Klein